Journalists are often under deadline pressure, which is why, says Crikey’s Emily Watkins, they return again and again to the same experts. Those who give good quotes are often also pretty good at making…

The Conversation welcomes the small publisher’s jobs and innovation package negotiated by the Nick Xenophon Team as part of the government’s media reform bill. “Access to this funding will make an immediate…

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Our latest book, The Conversation Yearbook 2016: 50 standout articles from Australia’s top thinkers, is now available. In a year in which political discourse seemed untethered from reality, the articles…